dianne feinstein of california offered her legislation this week to ban assault weapons but the turnout at a gun control rally yesterday in d.c. was tepid, and democrats are hedging on this. is anything really going to get done on this issue? >> i think something will get done but the idea of assault weapons ban may be an overreach, not just because there are a number of republicans, most republicans who oppose it, there are democrats, many as many as a dozen, who live in states that have gun cultures, guns part of growing up, hunting along with fishing and along with, you know, target shooting is a part of the lifestyle and there are democrats -- democratic senators there who want, in fact, to be re-elected so to reflect their state, they are looking at some of this and saying it can't go that far. we will see what happens. i will say that i think the thing that i hear the most about from both sides is universal background checks. that is expanding background checks to gun shows, et cetera, when there is a sale of a weapon. >>> it appears chuck hagel will be confirmed as secretary of d